Netsuite Advanced PDF/HTML text formatting

I am trying to left-align all lines of text string within a table in netsuite, but the text does not always have the same width, i.e. is not always more than 1 line.
The demo template seems to work okay;demo

However, when it comes to printing a sales order, the text string that spans multiple lines, ends up adding white space to the all but the final line of text. Similar to